I’ve been using title cases on The Base. I thought that’s how titles should be. They look formal and official to me. After all, newspapers use them too!
Until I came across a post on Snappy Sentences, I never gave it much conscious thought. While reading “Sentence case v title case” I had my response ready from the second I read the title. I was going to reply with all the reasons title cases are the way to go for a blog after I finished reading the post.
Then I read this:
Sites that use title case often use it inconsistently. Sometimes You Get This. But Sometimes you Get This.
The above two sentences blew all my arguments away. How many time have I wasted time trying to decipher which word to capitalize and which to not? There’s been so many times I’ve gotten it wrong too!
There’s nothing wrong in using title cases, they’re just not as reader/writer friendly as sentence case. Goes to show that just because I thought something should be a certain way, doesn’t mean that it has to be.
Still not convinced? Read the post over at Snappy Sentences, come back and debate away.
P.S: As convinced as I am, I still think title cases are better to look at! Too bad sentence casing makes my life as a blogger easy.
Update: I’ve gone back to using Title case. It seems my brain isn’t wired to read sentence case in headings.
Samar is a freelance blogger, e-book writer and the voice behind this blog. She loves her kid, her work and helping freelance writers break free from low paying content mills .
Whoa - you just blew my happy blogger bubble Marc! You have a point. I've only switched to using sentence casing in my blogging. For my ghost blogging and other copy writing work, I still use title case. So far I've been treating it as an experiment to see if it makes any difference. Also, I've started noticing which bloggers use sentence case and which use title case. It's been interesting!
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